After a legendary but over-the-hill fighter reluctantly agrees to train fifteen-year-old Will, the son of a rich local politician in nineteenth-century New York City, Will finds himself pleading with the stubborn older fighter to retire before he dies in the ring.
Front Lines (Soldier Girl, #1) (The Front Lines, #1)
by Michael Grant
1942. The fate of the world rests on a knife's edge. And the soldiers who can tip the balance...are girls. Set in an alternate World War II where young women are called up to fight alongside men, this is the story of Rio Richlin and her sisters-in arms as they go into battle against Hitler's forces. But not everyone believes that the girls should be on the front lines of war. Now Rio and her friends must fight not only to survive, but to prove their courage and ingenuity to a sceptical world.
Song of the Lark (Great Plains, #2) (Perennial Favorites Collection)
by Willa Cather
Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who longs to marry her but whose fate it is to set her free. With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado, to windy Chicago, from Dresden to New York and a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. She becomes a great opera singer but learns that as a true...
Womens Travel Writing 1750-1850
This is Volume VIII, WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING: 1750 - 1850 and is volume III of a collection of writings about ITALY, by Lady Morgan.
The Alex & Eliza Trilogy Boxed Set (Alex & Eliza Trilogy, Books 1-3)
by Melissa de la Cruz
Land of Hope (Ellis Island Stories, #1) (Ellis Island S.)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
Who Freed the Slaves? History 4th Grade Children's American Civil War Era History Books
by Baby Professor
Bestselling author David Levithan (Every Day; Boy Meets Boy; Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green) treats the tragic events of September 11th with care and compassion in this novel of loss and grief, but also of hope and redemption. First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . . The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college so...
The smallest thing can change the path of history. The year is 1976, and the British Empire still spans the globe. Coal drives the world, and the smog of it hangs thick over the canals of London. Clara Calland is on the run. Hunted, along with her scientist mother, by Menshevik spies and Imperial soldiers, they flee Ireland for London. They must escape airships, treachery and capture. Under flooded London's canals they join the rebels who live in the dank tunnels there. Tim Barnabas is one of th...
